Hi, Carlb. Thanks for fixing the gramatical errors on my text. I wrote it very fast so I didn't pay attention for the gramatic. If you're interested in taking part on the prize comitee comittee, you're welcome! DuqueSLBENFICAOBDdiscussão 06:17, 21 Dezembro 2006 (EST)

Carlb, i've tried to make admin names appear in bold in recent changes, but it didn't work just by copying it out of uncyclo's own monobook. Can you do something about it? Thanks -- Sir Mafagafo(fale comigo) 17:33, 13 Março 2007 (BRT)

Carlb, can you please join the #desciclopedia IRC channel so we can talk? I need to know about this new server you mentioned on the server changing thread. -Kohl Discussão contribuições 23:59, 19 Abril 2007 (BRT)

Carl, I noticed you edited several old/dead threads in the Boteco. I know you were just fixing predefs and such, but please, don't do it again as it causes major confusion. Btw, don't delete the predef redirects such as predefinição:imagens to predefinição:sem imagens as they are of good use and some of them are used in plenty articles. -Kohl Discussão contribuições 01h09min de 19 de Fevereiro de 2008 (BRST)

The old/dead Boteco threads have been fixed by deleting them, then undeleting them (keeping all but the latest revision). The predef redirects have been checked to ensure that they are no longer in use anywhere before deleting them; in cases where there are many appearances (such as {{wikipedia}} -> {{wikipédia}}) I've left the redirects in place. There must be a thousand of those.

I've been trying for the last two days or so to sort out the mess of predefinições (many are uncategorised, miscategorised, or have incorrect HTML coding) and to deal with problems with categories. Redirection of predefinições is something that can be tolerated if it's needed, but redirection of categories is best avoided - after redirection the old category still contains articles but any attempt to see a list of those articles fails (as the request is redirected). To get rid of a category? Remove it from every page, then delete it. #REDIRECT is not the answer. --Carlb 03h28min de 19 de Fevereiro de 2008 (BRST)

Carlb, I see in uncyclopedia, some wiki codes and when I try to copy then to my signature, they don't work...Rothmans say me to ask you to add on mediawiki.
The codes are in this page:
[7]SysopCeifadorTyler¥Durden 16h21min de 26 de Julho de 2008 (BRT)

Sophia is knowledge itself, or the Gnostic deity of wisdom, much revered by the authors of serious encyclopædaic works. In Uncyclopedia? Sophia is a potato. She is also depicted as Sophia Loren, a movie star. --Carlb 12h47min de 7 de Fevereiro de 2009 (BRST)

Hi Carl! Well, I'm the owner of the bot Predator(DiscctribEClogsBM), currently flagged as a bot here. I'm having issues regarding its use since you've installed the new MediaWiki version. When I want to run the bot, the Python stops processing accusing that it can't retrieve any page, recommending me to set the skin of my bot to MonoBook, which is already set. Any solutions? TIA. Emb.Ten. Eng. Fire_Wolf_brTALK/GAMES/EMBAIXADA 15h26min de 23 de agosto de 2009 (BRT)

As far as I know, it is still possible to run pywikipediabot on this site (hymie o rôbo updates {{pagecount}} daily - and that still works under MW 1.16a with no changes to the rôbo). While MW1.16 does add one new skin (vector), it is optional and is not the default on the site. The predator user is already set to the default, Monobook, in especial:preferências. The underlying database records for the user preferências were moved (from `user` to `user_properties`) internally within 1.16a but that shouldn't be causing the 'bot to not run? botwiki: might have some info? --Carlb 19h58min de 24 de agosto de 2009 (BRT)

I knew you updated the software version last weekend. A few users, including me, had betting (for fun, no money) at forums like that, for e.g. the results for the matches of the Brazilian Football (Soccer) League '09.

I wrote a template for betting calculation that showed the scores and points from each punter according to the rules we agreed on, but with the new software version, such pages (with this template) had problems not previously presented (on old software v.) probably because excessive parser functions used in actual template.

On example above, you can see results on green (full scores bet hit - 3 points), grey (partial hit: win, lose or tie, but not the exact scores - 1 point) and red (missed bet). On top of each bet table, you see a calculation (sum) of this points, for each user. That calculation works well in a Few initial bets, but below (just like that) the calculation functions just do not work.

I've increased the $wgExpensiveParserFunctionLimit in the config file from 99 (default) to 9999. That should remove all of the pages from that maintenance category. --Carlb 19h58min de 24 de agosto de 2009 (BRT)

I do not want to be presumptuous, but I believe it is appropriate to use the script RefreshLinks.php. CHERNOBYL (contato) 10h41min de 18 de dezembro de 2009 (BRST)

All staff should know that IP blocking is inefficient because if the guy uses Dynamic IP fucked and he only create another account and that's it then is free to do all the other shit again or do it without being logged and I will give a hint to personal development, to create a cookie with a lifetime proportional to the time lock and that's most pestenlhos think cookie is just a cookie so it must strengthen and blocking, it is very easy to be done in PHP to another resource .NET that creates keys in the registry of the machine only ai is much more complicated --George Cruz 11h51min de 23 de dezembro de 2009 (UTC)

I don't know if Kohl had already contacted you, but it's quite possible that he and some dutch users from UnMeta warn you about an supposed coup that Desciclopédia users may be done. Kohl had his privileges (sysop/bureaucrat) revoked due to some Windows Live Messenger conversation logs that show him imposing, manipulating and condemning others in DP. If you can and have the patience for this, check the page "Forum:Kohl". I'm just sending this message to ask you not do anything rash without verifying the facts. Kohl may tell you a lot of lies. For him, the whole Wiki is your enemy. So i just want to ask you a thing, maybe in name of all the users that like Desciclopédia: please take a wise decision to not let Desciclopédia die.

Well, Desciclopedia is having some problems again, and I think the reason is the server. I just wanna know what's happening, cause some images are missing and the site is so slowly... Can you fix it and help us? Answer, please. Agome89SAD49390 01h36min de 26 de janeiro de 2010 (BRST)

Thanks, now it's faster and better but... How about the bugged images? They'll back or we need to re-upload? Check out some of them in the Forum:Obama, cause I can't say the exactly period of that bug. Agome89SAD49390 03h17min de 1 de fevereiro de 2010 (BRST)

Any images from January 19-24 will need to be re-uploaded. While the article text is stored on more than one server using database replication, and all text was recovered after last week's server problems, the images were restored from backups which were a few days out of date so a small number are missing. My apologies. --Carlb 13h07min de 1 de fevereiro de 2010 (BRST)

Ok, no problem. Thanks for answer! ^^ Agome89SAD49390 13h35min de 1 de fevereiro de 2010 (BRST)

Carlb, we're still having the problem of the pages that are displaying an older version than the current one. Could u please check this out? (Discussão) Truewww (Contribuições) 19h33min de 10 de fevereiro de 2010 (BRST)

Hello Carlb, with this last problems of the Desciclopédia, i started a topic in the forum, please check it, Fórum:Debate:Servidor, it's a discussion about the server stats. I need you to give us, the specifications of the server. If you can do that ASAP it will be great. King/Discussão/"Pro Brasil, faça-se o melhor" 18h30min de 2 de março de 2010 (BRT)

Carlb, I now the things change on Desciclopedia. But we need your assistance with the Check user logs, the MySQL errors and with the Forum names.
SysopCeifadorTyler¥Durden 01h03min de 8 de setembro de 2010 (BRT)

Could you please change DNS Alias records so desciclo.pedia.ws starts resolving on 96.45.180.92 which is the stable server? (Discussão) Truewww (Contribuições) 22h52min de 16 de fevereiro de 2011 (BRST)

Shifting all of the load to one server only instead of leaving it split would merely slow that one server to zero. --Carlb (discussão) 20h17min de 14 de agosto de 2011 (BRT)

Hey Carlb. What happened to the servers of the Desciclopédia ? We're having to use other links do not work and they've added the plugins ... Dainidankai15612 21h58min de 21 de abril de 2011 (BRT)

Hi Carlb. We are having difficulties accessing the Desciclopédia, and many complaints of errors that are happening with all domains, accounts that do not logam, and still have users who must use the IP to do some editing. What happened? Goodbye. Dainidankai15612 05h01min de 22 de abril de 2011 (BRT)

Hello carlb, as you can see in this topic, the Extension:SpamBlacklist is causing serious problems to users because it is blocking essential links, including Unnews sources such as "uol.com.br" and "ultimosegundo" news links. Could you please disable the l1.apews.org filter or the extension itself?

Hello, as I saw at special:version, we still using an alpha "build" of 1.17, while MediaWiki has already released the 1.18.1 stable. You've probably been busy lately, so if you need any help updating MediaWiki, feel free to contact me and I'll be glad to help. I'm web developer and also bureaucrat here.

MediaWiki 1.19alpha was left running on a few then-newly-created wikis (af:fy:ie:io:mwl: and vls:) with little or no existing content, but to install it here either pages using affected extensions (such as css and icon) would all need to be edited or the extensions would need to be fixed to work with current MediaWiki versions. In some cases, these are being called from templates so many pages are affected (for instance, icons or editcount).

If the problem extensions could be addressed, I would then be willing to move the existing wiki to MW 1.18 or 1.19alpha. --Carlb (discussão) 01h17min de 23 de janeiro de 2012 (BRST)

thanks very much for your fast response.

MediaWiki says Extension:Icon is now part of mediawiki itself, so no need to install it anymore.

Extension:RawMsg says it now supports 1.9 and even 1.10.

Extension:LogCount doesn't work nowadays (page result empty), so I don't think it'll be a problem.

EditCount doesn't tell us in its description page, in which mw versions it works, but I do think it works fine as it's one famous and very used extension of Mediawiki.

So, looks like NewPageCSS seens to be the problem (although I can run my bot, at least on Desciclopédia Portuguese, to change all references to <css> tag, so we could work with extension:CSS instead).

Probably extension:SpecialNamespaces creates us a even bigger problem as I don't see, in this very moment, any workaround for it and it's a really important extension for Desciclopédia maintenance.

Anyway I'll try to install all these extensions, this week, in fresh 1.19alpha build in my localhost apache server and will report you the results.

It looks like there was an Special:Namespaces fix posted last month, which involved replacing Xml::Hidden with Html::Hidden wherever it appears in the code. This affects both MediaWiki 1.18 and 1.19 installations. (The original poster edited the source code subpage to explain the fix but didn't change the main page, making the info hard-to-find.) MW-EditCount is trying to use $wgMessageCache (which was removed in MW 1.18) and also was using ->mTitle instead of ->getTitle() at one point. This is repairable. Logcount is based on MW-Editcount and is similarly affected. It's used in one project statistics page and the user-page templates "this administrador malvado banned 666 usuários", number of images uploaded and number of pages deleted. CSS is fixable by using a small code stub to redirect <css> requests to the newer {{#css: extension, at which point NewPageCSS mercifully goes away. RawMsg is used once on the Google article (where it can actually launch a Google search) and is fixable as the same $wgMessageCache issue as noted for other extensions above. Icon used to be in the 'bemvindo' template for new users, not sure if it's still in use but the new version looks usable.

Presumably the MW1.19 will be out of "alpha" status in the next week or two, so there'll be a 1.20 alpha. At this point, the few wikis on 1.19 (af: was the one I was using to test these extension fixes) will likely be the first to be switched to 1.20alpha (as they're small and low activity). If nothing breaks, then the rest of the site should be upgradeable. Full status of extensions broken by 1.18+ is updated here. --Carlb (discussão) 17h40min de 14 de fevereiro de 2012 (BRST)

Thanks again for the fast response, carlb. Let's hope everything succeed on the upgrade. BTW, could you re-enable the wiki IRC embedded chat when you get sometime?

I remember we also had problem creating Deslistas namespace some years ago when the pages beginning with Deslistas: already existed in the main namespace, but the namespace didn't existed in fact. In the end we moved Deslistas home page and the others many times to solve this issue.

Anyway, those guys from DPL were certainly not thinking about backward compatibility while developing this last version.

Luiza was last spotted in my home province "on a six-month exchange in Barrie, Ont., about an hour's drive north of Toronto" here. As we are on Acre time (GMT-5), I presume she is using the extra two hours to get some rest? :) --Carlb (discussão) 14h06min de 23 de janeiro de 2012 (BRST)

Hi Carlb, thanks for fixing the namespace problems. I saw on Special:Version that we're using 1.20alpha of MediaWiki. When you updated the wiki, the servers didn't crash until now (that's a relief), and the portuguese language, got some parts change to Portuguese of Portugal instead of Brazilian Portuguese, like the Imagem: changed to Ficheiro:, that's not a big problem but if you could see that we would be thankful. But we've another problem, since we use too much templates, some of them are with some problems, like been on the left side of the page instead the middle, and some tags and html tags are no function properly (like <imagemap></imagemap>). Sorry to bother you with those problems sir. So, thanks for upgrades Carlb. King/Discussão/"Pro Brasil, faça-se o melhor" 17h29min de 18 de fevereiro de 2012 (BRST)

like been on the left side of the page instead the middle

Feels like MediaWiki is automatically changing align="center" with style="text-align:center", and that's the right way in fact as the other one is really deprecated.

However this one (text-align:center) doesn't work with childs that are block elements (only inline elements) such as tables and divs. I'm already manually changing all them to style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" which works better.

In zh-tw: and zh-hk:, when a QVFD such as One-liner, vandalism even stub was created, the {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} won't +1. But whatever in main namespace was deleted, including redirect page, disambiguation, One-liner, stub and vandalism ...etc ,{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}will always -1. So the {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}in zh-tw: and zh-hk: is decreasing incorrectly while the vandalism are happening. Could you help solve it? Or should I report it to UNMETA or MediaWiki?--Bhenry1990 (discussão) 00h45min de 12 de agosto de 2012 (BRT)

I wonder if maintenance/updateArticleCount.php or maintenance/initStats.php would solve this problem. But I am just a sysop. --Bhenry1990 (discussão) 06h01min de 17 de agosto de 2012 (BRT)

Thanks. It seemed that Article Count was updated. But I am not certain that the bug had been solved or not.--Bhenry1990 (discussão) 02h47min de 19 de agosto de 2012 (BRT)

The Bug still exists. Maybe I should wait for a stable version of Mediawiki.--Bhenry1990 (discussão) 08h52min de 26 de agosto de 2012 (BRT)

I am sorry for asking this question here. But I cannot contact any active administrator at Uncommons since my account is blocked. Rhubella Marie blocked my accont Bhenry1990 indefinitly and give the reason " Spamming to external sites.: Malignus sysops wins!." I don't know why did he block my account.(Maybe he blocked the accounts without making any edit immediately after account creation. ) If you are busy. Please help me contact another active administrator who can speak english or chinese at Uncommons. I cannot speak Português... Thanks. --Bhenry1990 (discussão) 08h30min de 4 de setembro de 2012 (BRT)

Thank you, you came to the right place at the right time! I was wondering how everything would revert. άδης,ο αδίστακτος μαντείο 03h30min de 24 de novembro de 2012 (BRST)

Please, could you unblock the IP address 192.168.1.3? You applied a range block for every wiki and I can't remove. It belongs to a personal friend of mine, he's not a spammer. Agome89SAD49390 18h28min de 8 de abril de 2013 (BRT)

What will happen to Desciclopedia if you die? I mean, in a long-term analysis (or being less dramatic, what will happen to Desciclopedia if you become tired of this and walkaway?) which do you think will be the future of the Desciclopédia (again, in long-term)? You know, I write here since 2006, I have more than 80.000 edits and almost 3000 articles, I getting old and slowly losing interest, but that does not mean I'd be happy if one day Desciclopédia simply disappear. Thats why I little worried about what you think about our future.